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World year list record (1 Viewer)
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Edward
Umimmak
South African Jonathan Rossouw had a half-decent year list last year
http://www.surfbirds.com/Features/05listers/2005yearrvw.html
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http://www.surfbirds.com/Features/05listers/2005yearrvw.html
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Edward woodwood
Member
Kenya and Peru/Ecuador/Colombia combined with SE Asia and maybe Oz would rack up numbers massiveley. And New Guinea too.
Could be done rather cheaply... with an around the world ticket.
Tim
Could be done rather cheaply... with an around the world ticket.
Tim
Xenospiza
Distracted
Take your time and get 1000 in the Peru (North & South), 1000 in Africa (Kenya + SA), 500 in SE Asia (incl. India), 500 or so in Oz, 250 in Texas (spring), 300 in PNG (3 weeks). And one big day in May in the Netherlands should get 150 too (record is 186).
No, easy to beat that year record... although to do it rather cheaply, you might wanna skip PNG!
The month world record is apparently 1674: http://www.tropicalbirding.com/littletwitch/INDEX.HTM
No, easy to beat that year record... although to do it rather cheaply, you might wanna skip PNG!
The month world record is apparently 1674: http://www.tropicalbirding.com/littletwitch/INDEX.HTM
Pluvius
Well-known member
Sometimes posts on this forum are bizarre. For the last few months I have been thinking of doing a large photographic year list and slowly amassing the info to go and do it in four to five years time. What a challenge it would be. Im starting to buy some of the lynx editions to acquaint me with the birds from around the world. I was thinking you would have to spend at least ten weeks in South America, Ten weeks in africa 8 weeks in oz/nz. Ten in nepal/india/thailand. 6 weeks in USA. 4 weeks in Europe and four in PNG.
Edward woodwood
Member
I'd sub a bit of time in USA for Central America... many more endems there...
maybe include West Africa and South Africa.
Sounds awesome... reckon when i've bought a new house and settled down a bit i might even have a year off and do something mindbendingly daft like this.
Good on yer James
maybe include West Africa and South Africa.
Sounds awesome... reckon when i've bought a new house and settled down a bit i might even have a year off and do something mindbendingly daft like this.
Good on yer James
Frenchy
Well-known member
Save on your carbon footprint and drive instead!! If you have the money, might be worth buying a landrover or something similar and just driving everywhere in the Old World. Then sell the vehicle, fly to the New World and start again. Ditto for Oz. That way your year out would turn into a real adventure, and would make for one hell of a trip report. If you made it back alive that is.
Another massive trip would be try and see as many of the worlds island endemics as possible. Now that would get you to some out of the way places....
Another massive trip would be try and see as many of the worlds island endemics as possible. Now that would get you to some out of the way places....
Strandman
Well-known member
how about a rallidae rally- as many as poss of the world's crakes rails and flufftails in a year.
it would be a nice run- Barnes, London for a Water Rail on New Year's Day then out from Heathrow to Okinawa and down into SE Asia, then Africa to South America- Austral Rail in Oct./Nov and finish up with with a Yellow Rail at Anahuac in Texas followed by the other US rails in Florida and home from Orlando
there might be quite a lot of waiting around though- more than in Waiting for Godot in fact
it would be a nice run- Barnes, London for a Water Rail on New Year's Day then out from Heathrow to Okinawa and down into SE Asia, then Africa to South America- Austral Rail in Oct./Nov and finish up with with a Yellow Rail at Anahuac in Texas followed by the other US rails in Florida and home from Orlando
there might be quite a lot of waiting around though- more than in Waiting for Godot in fact
Rob Hutchinson
Soft Lad
James,
Fanastic idea if you've got the time and money! Southeast Asia at least would be relatively keep - count us in for advice and a bit of free guiding (time allowing) if you are really crazy enough to give it a try.
Rob
Fanastic idea if you've got the time and money! Southeast Asia at least would be relatively keep - count us in for advice and a bit of free guiding (time allowing) if you are really crazy enough to give it a try.
Rob
richardrae
Member
I seem to recall seeing in the biographical details bit on the inside cover of James Clements Birds of the World checklist that he had done a big world year list - this may be the official record? From memory I think it was about 3600 although it's not a book that I tend to carry with me at all times for obvious reasons!
cheers,
Richard
cheers,
Richard
Frenchy said:
I did this, but without the vehicle - started at North Cape, Norway and finished at Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Only had two rules - no flying, no public transport. It was all either on foot or by hitch-hiking. Took two years ...route down through Europe into Spain, double-backed and across to Turkey, through the Middle East and thereafter Egypt. Southward through Sudan and the Horn of Africa, then East Africa, a zip down and across to Namibia and finally into South Africa. Good easily be done in less than a year, but I stopped in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia for many months each.
James
I'm losing it!
I don't have the money at present but have found that if you bend all your will to something you will find a way of making it happen. Even if I was rich I would not want to do a 'cheque-book' list. Presumably a lottery winner could just book trips from good specialist companies one after another and get a great list without even knowing much about birds! Whatever I do (if I can do something big) it won't be this approach. Just read that book (forgotten the title already - something like UK500) about a man who wanted 500 UK and Ireland birds before reaching 30. It was a bit off-putting, a bit 'get me a plane now, I have to go and get there before the plebs on the ferry!' Just my opinion but enough to make me reconsider my twitching and slow down a bit taking time to enjoy things more (or is that just old age?).
James
James
James Eaton
Trent Valley Crew
I have heard a rumour there is a birding couple who are attempting to do this next year or the year after, they have a bag load of cash and are looking at attempting 5000 in a year. Reckon its feasible if you went on 12 months of constant birding tours.
Impressed with your trip Jos, I met a guy in South Africa who cycled from Germany to South Africa, then he was going to stick his bike on the cargo ship and walk back home!
Impressed with your trip Jos, I met a guy in South Africa who cycled from Germany to South Africa, then he was going to stick his bike on the cargo ship and walk back home!
